ale house rumours are always the best rumours, true or otherwise. even better than the taxi driver rumours.



nothing will ever stop ale house rumours, not even supreme beings like you Paul.

Fo' sho. Where would we set that scheme up? There's a few potential sites around the region where there'd be very little socio-economic impact. Can just see Hock shuffling down the street with a shopping trolley, touting his whiteys...

Oh dear you've just been sallied

How is this stat derived, is it on total number of tests thoughout the sport or as a percentage relative to number of players? Just curious as obviously there are far more people playing professional soccer than rugby league.



On the point of blood tests being "invasive" I don't think it is illegal or against anyone's rights - they did em at the Beijing Olympics. Also, where I work, we are subject to random urine tests. Fail one and you have to pay for a blood test to be carried out if you want a chance of keeping your job, think it's about 70 quid.



Cull raised the point about Growth Hormone on B'n'A, it's a fact that this performance enhancer is very hard to test for and I'm almost certain that urine tests can't detect it.

Thought Carney was a little too reserved on the programme but Cull more than made up for it with his passionate rants. VERY good prog this week

Excluding Cup games there are 27 rounds of with 14 clubs = 378 instances.

Multiply that by 17 for the number of players 6426, which means with the current testing there is more than a 90% chance of a drug user getting of scott free.